To hate the cliquey vomit-inducing threads on MN?

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Because they put me right off the whole of MN .

Maybe it's because I don't generally use MN for 'chatting'; more for getting advice and opinions on parenting issues, health issues, etc (have namechanged btw as am a longstanding and cowardly MNer). But I do click on 'most active' when I come on here to see what's going on, and the clique arse-kissing and 'in' jokes between some MNers make me cringe and really put me off the site. It's like the school playground mum cliques but worse - because at least there the people really do know each other.

And yes I know threads about a thread are against MN rules blah blah but I wanted to moan about and am happy to be slated for doing so - so there

I just think some MNers should get over themselves and go off and start a new 'love-in' site somewhere else. The End.

aaaah but TSC, sometimes you get to shag Johnny and never be in the corner again

Watermelons?

The quiches are just a bit of fun. And we were all new once, you just have to watch, learn then wade in and enjoy.

Total tangent here but I don't think you can induce vomit. You can perhaps induce vomitting. How about nauseating instead?

People are too keen on clever-sounding verbiage on here sometimes.

Watermelon moment - Dirty Dancing. Think music stopping, confronted with object of crush, you say something stupid.

Then crush says "whassup coz?" and you realise he is a poncey knobber. Crush over.

I don't get what you mean, tsc. Could you explain at even greater length?

HULLY!

peter andre thread

quoi?

mn has always been like that

Ah! I had a watermelon moment in that case when my last crush (at work) turned up on a Monday morning in his Range Rover (CLEAN!) and a tweed cap. If I had been male I'd have detumesced instantly.

we can't change any of it

like minded assouls like me for eg will be drawn to frivolity and nonsense whilst others will feel baffled and hence excluded.

what to do?

ne'er joke again? how gloomy the world would be.

the important thing is intention. there is never intention to hurt or exclude, just to put a little laughter into the day.

As dear Thomas said: Happiness is but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.

Just snorted at TSC watermelons

I understand where the OP is coming from. At times it seems threads have 100's of replies simply due to the author. I do not though feel as if it's cliquey - done to exclude, more people who have been here a long time and 'know' who they're responding to.

And also depends where you are too. In allergies I know everyone reads what I write, and they reply because they know me and my DS situation.

AND tbveryh there are posters who posts I read instead of skip/skim because I know they have similar views to me and their posts are interesting. Make me a bit of a twat to complain when people do the same to me.

dear Thomas Hardy

oh, he was a mopey get

poor lad

Thought you meant dear Oliver, Hully.

That's another fine mess I so nearly got into.

Hey no snogging, you haven't brushed your teeth.

Minger!

I think Georgiamama nailed it.

If you read a thread and loads of people are making duck fucking jokes it is easy to assume that they are all in on the joke and know each other.
Actually they are all just piling in. Some will know each other, many won't.

My name crops up because I have been here for years and never name change. But I will talk to anyone and, because I can never figure who name changers are, I am not going to be snarky with anyone. The real clique threads just evolve. I did visit one to find some of them taking the piss out of me so it can happen. But it isn't about excluding people. It is just about finding familiar faces.

Jude the obscure is unrelenting misery. Why would anyone write such stuff?

Fuck, I've just got back after a looooong day and missed out on chatting to all the various quiches.
OP (remember her) just join in the threads you like, then you might get the jokes too.

Tom was not at all nice to his wife IIRC. She'd be slagging him all ways up to AF in Relationships.

I'm not in any quiche at all but can usually rustle up someone to shoot the breeze with. It takes years of persistence and dedication to the cause, mind.